In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...

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A bee rests on a purple coneflower at Phelps Grove Park in Springfield. The trail runs 13 miles on either side of Highway 13 through 12 Missouri counties. It's expected to provide important habitats ...

Explore a world of color, texture, and movement with these stunning acrylic pouring techniques. From negative space designs to open cup pours and unexpected tools like bubble wrap, each method brings ...

Thousands of artists are being featured at hundreds of galleries as Art Basel opens its doors in the Swiss city this week. But before visitors even enter the art fair, they will cross a large public ...

As we are now officially into the holiday season, I have been spending a lot of time working on DIY holiday crafting projects. The other day, I came up with an idea for a cool project that fits nicely ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Founded in 2003, Cosmic Butterfly Design has created many vibrant murals throughout Milwaukee communities. The eye-catching murals can be seen throughout universities, public ...